Central Park Coyote

On 2006-03-23, -L. penned:

They're all taking chastitiy vows and ending up in the ER with
chalymidia of the throat. But hey, they're still virgin, right?


There are entire websites devoted to remaining a technical virgin by
virtue of using yet another orifice ... one that is much more prone to
rips and tears, and therefore much more likely to allow transmission
of diseases. But hey, they're still virgins ...

Maybe it will result in a repeal of sodomy laws by a grass roots
effort from the young christian right. Hey, a girl can dream =P

--
monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully

pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca

On 2006-03-23, penned:
dnr wrote:

I am having trouble generating sympathy for a wild animal that
probably ate his weight in stray cats before anyone noticed his
presence......

Well, it's not the coyote's fault. They're predators - that's what
they do.

Humans have spread all over the world and now we're living side by
side with wild animals. We've either moved into their territory, or
we've displaced them, and/or made their habitats unlivable, so they
end up in urban or suburban areas, like the elk that live in
downtown Banff. Also, sometimes animals that were hunted almost to
extinction make a comeback, except that the area they're coming back
into has been built up and settled by humans - and suddenly, we have
some new neighbors.


I agree. I save my anger for people who knowingly torture and kill
without making any use of the remains.

I doubt coyotes are quite evolved enough yet to check for a collar
before chowing down.

--
monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully

pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca

wrote:

dnr wrote:

I am having trouble generating sympathy for a wild animal that
probably ate his weight in stray cats before anyone noticed
his presence......

Well, it's not the coyote's fault. They're predators - that's what
they do.

Exactly! I have no problem with that (although I'd
certainly be distressed if one of my cats fell prey to one).
Some people feel the same way about the critters our
cats prey upon. (Mostly when the prey are birds, of course -
few people feel quite the same about the rodents they destroy.)

--
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I am having trouble generating sympathy for a wild animal that
probably ate his weight in stray cats before anyone noticed
his presence......
Well, it's not the coyote's fault. They're predators - that's what
they do.
Humans have spread all over the world and now we're living side by
side with wild animals. We've either moved into their territory, or
we've displaced them, and/or made their habitats unlivable, so they
end up in urban or suburban areas, like the elk that live in downtown
Banff. Also, sometimes animals that were hunted almost to extinction
make a comeback, except that the area they're coming back into has
been built up and settled by humans - and suddenly, we have some new
neighbors.
Joyce

Well, you're right, of course, Joyce....it's probably just that the FL
panther,
a good example of what you say, is a *cat* (spotted rarely in area I used
to live in) and the only coyote I ever saw (met, actually, on a deserted
trail in Yosemite) looked like a medium-sized *dog*, except for the
look in his eyes.

"dnr" wrote in
:

I heard about that on the news. I was pleasantly surprised to hear
that they only shot him with a tranquilizer gun.
Joy

I am having trouble generating sympathy for a wild animal that
probably ate his weight in stray cats before anyone noticed
his presence......




More likely ate ten times his weight in rats and mice. Those and
garbage cans are the commonest sources of food for coyotes.

Chak

--
I would like at least one political party in this country to be willing
to say that sex is fun and an important part of being human.
--PZ Myers, http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/

"Monique Y. Mudama" wrote in
:

On 2006-03-23, Chakolate penned:

That always seemed so funny to me - like the parents who get all
bent out of shape because their kids want to get birth control.
It's the ones who *don't* want birth control that the parents should
be worried about.

I grew up with my mom telling me she'd get me on BC when I was 16.

She was terrified, for some reason, of becoming a grandmother while I
was a teen. Well before I *was* a teen.


According to the extreme Christian right, that should have made you sex-
crazy. IYDMMA, did it?

Chak

--
I would like at least one political party in this country to be willing
to say that sex is fun and an important part of being human.
--PZ Myers, http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/

On 2006-03-23, Chakolate penned:
"Monique Y. Mudama" wrote in
:

I grew up with my mom telling me she'd get me on BC when I was 16.

She was terrified, for some reason, of becoming a grandmother while
I was a teen. Well before I *was* a teen.

According to the extreme Christian right, that should have made you
sex- crazy. IYDMMA, did it?


I don't know what IYDMMA means, but I don't think it took anything my
mom said to make me sex crazy as a teen =P

Someone told me they'd read studies claiming that hormonal BC
permanently reduces your sex drive. Now that's scary. But I haven't
followed up on it.

--
monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully

pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca

I am having trouble generating sympathy for a wild animal that
probably ate his weight in stray cats before anyone noticed
his presence......
More likely ate ten times his weight in rats and mice. Those and
garbage cans are the commonest sources of food for coyotes.
Chak


Coyotes just don't live where I came from (probably too d*** hot)
but raccoons get in garbage cans all the time....smart little critters.
I just assumed they are smarter than coyotes, but guess I was
wrong thinking that. I didn't know coyotes could get into garbage
cans. The one I met on Yosemite hiking trail eyed me for a minute
then hauled *** back the direction he'd come, while I ran back
to my companions screaming about the "wild dog" I'd seen, LOL.

dnr wrote:
I am having trouble generating sympathy for a wild animal that
probably ate his weight in stray cats before anyone noticed
his presence......
More likely ate ten times his weight in rats and mice. Those and
garbage cans are the commonest sources of food for coyotes.
Chak


Coyotes just don't live where I came from (probably too d*** hot)
but raccoons get in garbage cans all the time....smart little critters.
I just assumed they are smarter than coyotes, but guess I was
wrong thinking that. I didn't know coyotes could get into garbage
cans. The one I met on Yosemite hiking trail eyed me for a minute
then hauled *** back the direction he'd come, while I ran back
to my companions screaming about the "wild dog" I'd seen, LOL.

They do look like dogs. Like a medium-sized, really scroungy dog with
big ears. I've only seen one in the daytime. We were in the back yard
and Happy (the dachshund) took off chasing it, with a pig ear in his
mouth I'd just given him. He's lucky the coyote ran instead of kicking
his butt and taking his pig ear away from him.

Sherry

Chakolate wrote:
More likely ate ten times his weight in rats and mice. Those and
garbage cans are the commonest sources of food for coyotes.

Chak

In New York City the palates are refined from fine dining
establishments. There are literally hundreds of really good places to
eat and a dozen of the best on this side of the planet. It's a nice
life for those who are wealthy.

FYI, Mr. Coyote dined on duck in the park, at least his last supper
there.

The look in his eyes were quite soulful while reclining in the cage. He
was caught and he knew it. The carefree days of youth and abandon are
over now.

If they release him in a preserve up north, things may go well for him,
assuming the older coyotes don't hassle him as they probably did just
outside NYC.